newbie question about openembedded dependency tracking
Rod Whitby
rod at whitby.id.au
Sun Aug 19 02:08:26 CEST 2007
Ray Lehtiniemi wrote:
> hi all
>
> just got my neo1973 and am getting up to speed on the build environment. i am
> following the instructions at
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Application_Development_Crash_Course
>
> it seems like i have gotten the package built once. however, i'm not sure
> about the dependency tracking...
>
> i would expect that:
>
> # touch local/packages/myhelloworld/files/myhelloworld.c
> # make openmoko-devel-image
>
> would notice that it needs to rebuild myhelloworld, but it doesn't. am i
> expecting too much, or did i do something wrong?
You are expecting too much. Bitbake/OE works on time-stamp files and
version numbers in the .bb files. If you change something, you need to
either bump the PR number, or use the -c rebuild task.
-- Rod
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